2015 Annual Gift of Giving Back Community Food Drive

When

Why

How

Who Organizations we are helping: Salvation Army, Partnership West, Carpenter Hospice, Halton Women’s Place

Collect Food from Family & Friends, work, stores and other places Corporate Donations Plan team events See ideas on how to fundraise for Food

November 2015 Timeline

This food drive is important to the City of Burlington. Without it, our beneficiaries won’t have food to supply to those who need it.

2014 we raised 281,878.31lbs of food, worth over 2.5m worth of food to our community.

June 19th

Kick-offSeptBurlington Mall Kick-off

NovemberFood Collection

August /SeptTouch Point

Support

Stores

Social

Media

Tools/

Bags

We have given you some documentation tools to help you get started. Please see your package.

Internet and social media sites will be up and running for Sept launch Bags will also be available for the Sept launch Looking for real estate agents to purchase and advertise on them. If you know

someone, please contact: John Crick @ johncrick3@gmailcom

All social media sites will be up and running for the September launch Site coming: giftofgivingback.ca Facebook: f/BurlingtonEaglesGiveBack Twitter: @giftgivingback• More to come….

All approvals, questions: Jean Jean.longfield@gmail.com

Social Media prime: Kim (social media requests & key messaging) klaronde@riocan.com

Media Prime: Jen (All releases) communications@bghc.ca

Documentation: Melanie Kirkpatrick melanie.kirkpatrick@sympatico.ca

We have a team that will approach the local grocery stores this year and we will have a sign-up available on-line for teams to book their times

More to come on the communication around this Tim Horton’s: you can approach as you have in the past

2015 Annual Gift of Giving Back Community Food Drive

2015 Annual Gift of Giving Back Community Ideas for Kids to Collect Food

Kids Idea

s

Have a school movie night or event and have a drop box for food. Talk to teachers and get their help speaking with the principal to get permission to communicate the collection activities in the school.

Make a theme for each day of the week and tell people to bring in cans that fit the theme, like Protein Monday, Twoonie Tuesday, or Carb Friday.

If hosting a Halloween Party or Thanksgiving Dinner, ask family and friends to bring a canned food item.

Talk to 10: encourage each parent to solicit 10 contacts of theirs to generate fundraising (either a monetary donation or canned goods)

School involvement: bring your child to the Principal's office and explain the fundraising event. See if you can get the school's buy in and possibly put a drop box in the school.

Child Insight: Talk to your child and get their ideas on the top 5 ways we can generate canned goods within the community. We may be surprised at the ingenuity of our little guys and girls

Visit local companies and ask for donations Ask teams you are playing to bring canned goods to donate Parents: check to see if your organization will donate food or money Drop flyers at neighbours’ house to notify of collection day in your

neighbourhood Kids can make presentations in class about hunger, homelessness and poverty Dress down day - bring in food or pay $2.00 to participate Collect change fundraiser - everyone bring in loose change Garage sale/Bake in your neighbourhood Halloween - collect change when go trick or treating Having a birthday party? Collect food instead of gifts

Parent

Ideas

Go by local companies and ask for donations Set up a box at parents company to collect food donations Ask teams you are playing to bring canned goods to donate Check to see if your organization will donate food or money Do dress down days at work and bring in food to participate Set up a box at parents’ company to collect food donations Collect beer & wine empties Poker night - have an evening social where the winnings are divided

between winner and the food drive?

Business/Family Donations For money donations from businesse,s you can make cheques payable

to Salvation Army and a tax receipt will be issued. You can either take 2lbs per dollar or you can work with the Salvation Army to give us the money to buy food.

Make it FUN!!!!! Have fun with your kids! Make it a family challenge and get everyone

involved. Lets teach our kids what it means to help in our community and what it means to give back.

2015 Annual Gift of Giving Back Community Ideas for Parents to Collect Food

What is your Goal?

My Personal Goal Is:

Player Name

Collect 20 pounds of food and cross off a puck to keep track of your success.

What is Our Team Goal?

Our Team Goal Is: